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[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Apropos of nothing, I miss those Carvel commercials with the gravelly-voiced old guy (the owner?) shouting "I'm Fudgy the Whale!"

eta: Yup, it was Tom Carvell. Thanks, google.

This guy has different feelings about those commercials:

• I don't know what all the fuss is about, Tom Carvel freaked the hell out of me when I was a kid. And the poster who used the pseudonym, "Ghost of Tom Carvel" gave me a taste of the sinister fear that was my childhood. Every time those low rent commercials came on, with the sepulchral, asthmatic voice of Tom Carvel, pleading with me to buy a "Fudgie the Whale," or a "Cookie O' Puss, " I just freaked out, man, i couldn't handle it.

http://www.gothamist.com/archives/20...square_now.php (one of the comments)

I think I recall in Antitrust class (one of the few interesting law school courses) that he went out of business for antitrust violations. Something about forcing stores to buy his filler for the soft serve machines he invented? Anyone?

TM